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Comparative Study
. 1978;10(3):295-9.

[Effect of strychnine, hydrastine and apamin on synaptic transmission in smooth muscle cells]

[Article in Russian]
  • PMID: 673075
Comparative Study

[Effect of strychnine, hydrastine and apamin on synaptic transmission in smooth muscle cells]

[Article in Russian]
I A Vladimirova et al. Neirofiziologiia. 1978.

Abstract

The effects of strychnine, hydrastine and apamine on nervemuscle transmission in guinea pig stomach and taenia coli were studied. Hydrastine and strychnine produced an increase in non-adrenergic IPSPs of smooth muscle cells. Under apamine action IPSPs and hyperpolarization caused by exogenous ATP were reversibly blocked and non-cholinergic EPSPs appeared. ATP caused depolarization of the cell membrane in this condition. Consequently, apamine is a specific (postsynaptic) blocking agent of non-adrenergic inhibition and ATP obviously mediates both non-adrenergic inhibition and non-cholinergic synaptic excitation of smooth muscle cells observed in our experiments.

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